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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Apple Lawsuit (was BOYCOTT APPLE, etc.)
Message-ID: <1862@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 88 09:07:53 GMT
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Keywords: Microsoft, HP New Wave, Xerox, Lawsuit

In article <8690@sol.ARPA>, jdia@cs.rochester.edu (Josh Diamond) writes:
> In article <1779@uoregon.UUCP> jqj@drizzle.UUCP (JQ Johnson) writes:
> >Personally, I would prefer to see a standardized user interface (i.e.
> >with the SAME "look and feel") available for all the machines my
> >users are likely to touch.
> There already is one.  It's called X-Windows.

No. X is the road one might take toward implementing a standardized user
interface.  You are confusing the brick and mortar with the building.  Both
X and NeWS provide the brick and mortar.  A standardized user interface
is the MacOS, GEM, New Wave and most recently the "Open Look".

AT&T/Sun/Xerox ( and I believe a number of other vendors had inputs)
have just finished announcing a standardized user interface
for Unix System V Release 4.0 .  The Open Look interface will be built on
top of two different tool kits (X and NeWS) and will have a distinctive
look and feel.

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My Opinions are my own.